Why do people use Twitter?

It really isn't a social networking site of the ilk of myspace or facebook, the focus of those is your profile and building stuff up around it, photo galleries etc, the focus of twitter is something that you want to share there and then, and then you move on. It's much closer to blogging than social networking. I don't get how people can take a dislike to a website really, obviously it won't click for some people, but I imagine most of the internet doesn't, why harp on about something that lots of people use, just because you don't.
 
I like it because I can see what some of the people I am interested in are up to.

I follow some (popular and not so popular) musicians to find out how they're getting on with writing the latest album/whatever, some also post links to things I may find enjoy, I also follow some celebrities as well like Will Wheaton, Charlie Brooker, Stephen Fry (obviously), Robert Llwellyn for updates about their work.
 
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Twitter is good in that it appears to have superceded happy slapping as the youth culture phrase of choice on national news buletins.
 
Stupid pointless service which serves only to waste peoples time. I'm sick to the back teeth of hearing about it on every bloody tv and radio show going, the BBC in particular seem to cram a reference to it in everything possible, are they taking bungs from twitter?
I genuinely can't understand why they hark on about it so much, just about all the shows on radio 1 go on about sending them a message via twitter now. Why the **** would I want to do that when I can already text or call from my phone or send an email from my computer, what on earth is the point? Is it simply as some kind of shallow statement of how much of a sheepish trend follower you are?
 
Twitter just seems so insubstantial to me. And tbh I'm not generally the kind of person who wants to know what Stephen Fry is having for dinner.
 
Abraham said:
It really isn't a social networking site of the ilk of myspace or facebook, the focus of those is your profile and building stuff up around it, photo galleries etc, the focus of twitter is something that you want to share there and then, and then you move on. It's much closer to blogging than social networking. I don't get how people can take a dislike to a website really, obviously it won't click for some people, but I imagine most of the internet doesn't, why harp on about something that lots of people use, just because you don't.
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But then I find almost all blogs pointless. The majority of people on this planet are no where near as interesting as the internet seems to make them think they are.

I stopped updating my blog in 2005, and the only reason I had one was because my brother wouldn't give me free webhosting if I didn't use it, and mainly that was so that my mum in SA could keep up to date on what I was up to since moving to the UK.
 
Skyfall said:
Twitter just seems so insubstantial to me. And tbh I'm not generally the kind of person who wants to know what Stephen Fry is having for dinner.
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This is the bit that annoys me about the Twitter haters. They always harp on about not wanting to know what people are having for dinner, or what colour socks they're wearing. I follow about 120 people and I can't honestly remember a single occasion when someone has said about their lunch. If people actually bothered to give it a chance instead of jumping on the hate-bandwagon they may see it themselves.
 
Abraham said:
It really isn't a social networking site of the ilk of myspace or facebook, the focus of those is your profile and building stuff up around it, photo galleries etc, the focus of twitter is something that you want to share there and then, and then you move on. It's much closer to blogging than social networking. I don't get how people can take a dislike to a website really, obviously it won't click for some people, but I imagine most of the internet doesn't, why harp on about something that lots of people use, just because you don't.
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If you take Facebook, you are right in suggesting that the whole experience is very centric about you, It's about your photos, what you are doing and events that you are going to.

Twitter is very much different as it's not about you but everyone else. Like a traditional blog, you're writing content that interests your audience. This is a difference many people don't pick up on.
 
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Davey_Pitch said:
This is the bit that annoys me about the Twitter haters. They always harp on about not wanting to know what people are having for dinner, or what colour socks they're wearing. I follow about 120 people and I can't honestly remember a single occasion when someone has said about their lunch. If people actually bothered to give it a chance instead of jumping on the hate-bandwagon they may see it themselves.
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I did, but there was no one to follow, No one else I know uses twitter... I had a look at Stephen Fry's as he's like the Twitter uber celeb and his latest update was what he was having for dinner.

I just don't know who I'm supposed to follow...
 
Abraham said:
I don't get how people can take a dislike to a website really, obviously it won't click for some people, but I imagine most of the internet doesn't, why harp on about something that lots of people use, just because you don't.
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Because the ubiquity of Twitter is very annoying, that's why. As someone else pointed out, the BBC never stop harping on about it.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
What are you interested in?
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You know, like technology and stuff. I would add blogs like engagets twitter, but I don't see the point when they have an rss feed for their posts anywho...

And lol I just logged into my twitter for the first time in about over a month and in that updateless time i've gained 14 followers... Eh?
 
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